About the Authors

Grace Tung-Thompson

These authors were graduate students who performed the experiments.

Affiliation Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Dominic A. Libera

These authors were graduate students who performed the experiments.

Affiliation Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Kenneth L. Koch

Affiliation Section on Gastroenterology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, United States of America

Francis L. de los Reyes III

fldelosr@ncsu.edu

These authors are faculty members who supervised the work.

Affiliation Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Lee-Ann Jaykus

These authors are faculty members who supervised the work.

Affiliation Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GTT FL FLD LAJ KK. Performed the experiments: GTT DAL. Analyzed the data: GTT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FLD KK LAJ. Wrote the paper: GTT DAL LAJ FLD KK.